ant wrote: TD is definitely not over as far as I am concerned and am really looking forward to the new release(s). ...
Mostly re-hashed stuff and left overs. I doubt there will be anything new in the midst, that has not already been used.
ant wrote: ...It is sad you feel that way but it is of course your choice. There is still a lot of electronic music out there but it will always appeal to a smaller number of people than your usual 'chart' music. That is the case now and was the case then....
Incorrect. In LA, and in Santa Barbara, a lot of these things were fairly well known, and while not the massive seller as Elton John or Rolling Stones might have been at the time, the sales in that area for Tangerine Dream and many other electronic folks was major, by comparison to many other places in America.
In fact, Edgar even did a very nice promo for Guy Guden and his Space Pirate Radio show, whom Edgar and the band knew had always played TD religiously for many years, in a commercial radio station.
However, today, the media is not interested in music, and it only discusses the hits to make sure they can get their readership. But in those days, there were too many places where we could shine and be seen, and appreciated. Today, a lot of this is gone and buried. YES ... there are more folks that play, and they are on YT or otherwise ... and no one knows or remembers their name!
That does not help the movement or the history of it.
TD continuing it or not, is not as important to me, as the music itself, and a style and interpretation that is not used, yet, on classical music, and will one of these days, hopefully as a synthesizer as ONE instrument in the orchestra ---- instead of a replacement for the other instruments!!!!! Something that I am sure Edgar would not stand for!
We're not making enough noise ... and where is the orchestra here and there playing the stuff? I mentioned this to the local conductor here in Portland, and he thinks that Frank Zappa is not a composer, and that TD is not music! The only thing they do is bring in Pink Martini because the girls bring in fans, I guess, that the old and ugly orchestra would not!
We need to go better than that! A lot better, when you got folks that do not know music from a fart in the wind!